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Milkweed Ladies by Louise McNeill (1988, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-100822935872
ISBN-139780822935872
eBay Product ID (ePID)1003587
Product Key Features
Book TitleMilkweed Ladies
Number of Pages136 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, De, Fl, Ga, Md, Nc, SC, VA, WV), Personal Memoirs, General, Literary
Publication Year1988
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorLouise Mcneill
Book SeriesRegional Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight9.6 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN88-001334
ReviewsIn this graceful, poignant memoir, poet McNeill writes of the West Virginia land that has been in her family for nine generations., Delicate, tensile, bittersweet, Louise McNeill's The Milkweed Ladies is a memoir of importance, full of detail about the soul of a place--our place--and the influence of a now lost world on an accomplished individual life., Oh what a treasure of weathered beauty and wisdom this book is; what a magical evocation, not only of seventy-five years of deepest living in this our time, but also informed with a poet's memoried sense of nine generations of her people.
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition19
Dewey DecimalB
SynopsisThe Milkweed Ladies is written out of deep affection for and intimate knowledge of the lives of rural people and the rhythms of the natural world. It is a personal account of the farm in southern West Virginia where poet Louise McNeill's family has lived for nine generations. The Milkweed Ladies is filled with memorable characters--an herb-gathering granny, McNeill's sailor father, her patient, flower-loving mother, and Aunt Malindy in her "black sateen dress" who "never did a lick of work." McNeill writes movingly of the harsh routines of the lives of her family, from spring plowing to winter sugaring, and of the hold the farm itself has on them and the earth itself on all of us. McNeill juxtaposes the life of the farm with the larger world events that impinge on it, such as the destruction from lumber companies in the 1930s and World War II in the '40s. With her poet's gift for detail and language, McNeill creates a particular world forgotten by many of us, and to some of us, never known.
LC Classification NumberPS3525.A283Z467 1988
